Partisan Niki, officer of Greek People’s Liberation Army (Greek:Ellinikós Laïkós Apeleftherotikós Stratós (ELAS)) in Rentina (1944). [394×466]

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Jonas Salk creates the first vaccine against poliomyelitis , 1955. Salk didn’t patent his vaccine, saving millions of lives as result. [1196 × 1472]

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U.S. soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division in Oxford, Mississippi during military occupation of the city following riots at the University of Mississippi against the enrollment of black student James Meredith (October 1, 1962) [1024 x 943]

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September 1918. “Shell Shock patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as ‘shell-shock.’ ” 2200×1654

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Mao Zedong playing pingpong, 1965 [1080×1506]

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Apollo 11 astronauts (R-L) Aldrin, Collins, & Armstrong peering out the window of the quarantine room aboard recovery ship USS Hornet following splashdown fr. historic moon mission, july 1969.[1600 x 1067]

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